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Related Topic(s): Friendship; Marriage; Spouse
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Only choose in marriage a woman who you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
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Related Topic(s): Friendship
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The man who doesn't have the weaknesses of friendship doesn't have its strength either.
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Related Topic(s): Excess; Friendship; Love
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I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
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Related Topic(s): Advice; Ethics; Fathers; Friendship; God; Policy; Thinking
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A mentor is a concerned counselor
When Odysseus, hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, set out for the siege of Troy, he was afraid that he was going to be gone for quite some time; so, he left his household and his wife, Penelope, in the care of his trusted friend, Mentor.
When Odysseus was gone, things went from bad to worse in his house because of Penelope's suitors drinking up the contents of the wine-cellar and butchering the cattle for t...
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Related Topic(s): Friends; Friendship; Philosopher
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A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844- August 25, 1900) was a 19th- century German philosopher and classical philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy and science, using a distinctive German-language style and displaying a fondness for metaphor, irony and aphorism.
Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth have resulted in much commentary and interpretation, mostly in the continental tradition, and to a lesser extent in analytic philosophy. |
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Related Topic(s): Connection; Friendship; Soul
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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| Aristotle |
From the wiki: Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality, aesthetics, logic, science, politics, and metaphysics. |
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Related Topic(s): Deception; Friends; Friendship; Honor; Lying; Trust
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It is more dishonourable to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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| La Rochefoucauld |
Antoine de la Rochefoucauld, the second of this name, Seigneur de Chaumont-sur-Loire, served Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé as a knight (chevalier de l'ordre du Roi) and his chamberlain. 7 October 1552, he married Cécile de Montmirail, daughter of Étienne de Montmirail, seigneur de Chambourcy, maître des Requêtes and Louise de Selve.
He fought at the Battle of Jarnac on 13 March 1569, where the Prince de Condé was killed, and succeeded to withdraw his troops to Cognac. Charged by Gaspard de Coligny, he then took Nontron, 8 June. |
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Related Topic(s): Assholes; Friends; PR Public Relations
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I've been handling press relations for Madame Nhu....She's brilliant. She's the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. You know, if I were cast on a desert island with Madame Nhu, I'd quickly make friends with the natives.
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| Oscar Levant |
Oscar Levant (27 December 1906 - 14 August 1972) was an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and actor. He was more famous for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than for his music.
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